Do I really exist?

[Kristoffer8219]

The classic evidence is "I think, therefore , I am".

You got it all wrong....its "I thunk, therefore, I is"

 

[Bill Fortenberry]

How do I know?

Is there real evidence that I exist?

How can I be sure that this so called evidence is real?

I could be someone else doing the writing for me.

Is there an oatmeal?

oatmeal?

From Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes:

"Accordingly, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose that there existed nothing really such as they presented to us; and because some men err in reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, even on the simplest matters of geometry, I, convinced that I was as open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasonings I had hitherto taken for demonstrations; and finally, when I considered that the very same thoughts (presentations) which we experience when awake may also be experienced when we are asleep, while there is at that time not one of them true, I supposed that all the objects (presentations) that had ever entered into my mind when awake, had in them no more truth than the illusions of my dreams. But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat; and as I observed that this truth, I think, therefore I am, was so certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the philosophy of which I was in search."

Also from his Principles of Philosophy:

"While we thus reject all of which we can entertain the smallest doubt, and even imagine that it is false, we easily indeed suppose that there is neither God, nor sky, nor bodies, and that we ourselves even have neither hands nor feet, nor, finally, a body; but we cannot in the same way suppose that we are not while we doubt of the truth of these things; for there is a repugnance in conceiving that what thinks does not exist at the very time when it thinks. Accordingly, the knowledge, I think, therefore I am, is the first and most certain that occurs to one who philosophizes orderly."

 

[tomlapalm]

How do I know I am thinking?

Somebody is typing correctly, so something is thinking

 

[oatmeal]

Somebody is typing correctly, so something is thinking

Does my words and intellect prove my existence and activity?

Does God's words and intellect prove God exists and is active?

 

[tomlapalm]

If spelling is a sign of intelligence?

God has shown Himself to us in more ways. The creation shows us there is a God.
The Word tells us what He wants to say to us. The Holy Spirit shows in individually we need God and the only way to know God is by Jesus.

With you we get new words. God words are complete

 

[oatmeal]

If spelling is a sign of intelligence?

God has shown Himself to us in more ways. The creation shows us there is a God.
The Word tells us what He wants to say to us. The Holy Spirit shows in individually we need God and the only way to know God is by Jesus.

With you we get new words. God words are complete

God words are complete

Yes, God's word, the scriptures are done, they are complete, not fulfilled but complete

With you we get new words.

???

 

[Angel4Truth]

How do I know?

Is there an oatmeal?

oatmeal?

yes i have proof -

 

[oatmeal]

yes i have proof -

Thank you!

I feel much better now

But, am I the box or the contents?

that could be an empty box

Is oatmeal good for you?

or is that simply an advertising campaign?

 

[tomlapalm]

Yes, God's word, the scriptures are done, they are complete, not fulfilled but complete



???

The revelation from Oatmeal is not complete.

 

[meshak]

You exist in this world.

spiritually? that is the problem for most of us. and you are no different.

 

[oatmeal]

From Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes:

"Accordingly, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose that there existed nothing really such as they presented to us; and because some men err in reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, even on the simplest matters of geometry, I, convinced that I was as open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasonings I had hitherto taken for demonstrations; and finally, when I considered that the very same thoughts (presentations) which we experience when awake may also be experienced when we are asleep, while there is at that time not one of them true, I supposed that all the objects (presentations) that had ever entered into my mind when awake, had in them no more truth than the illusions of my dreams. But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat; and as I observed that this truth, I think, therefore I am, was so certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the philosophy of which I was in search."

Also from his Principles of Philosophy:

"While we thus reject all of which we can entertain the smallest doubt, and even imagine that it is false, we easily indeed suppose that there is neither God, nor sky, nor bodies, and that we ourselves even have neither hands nor feet, nor, finally, a body; but we cannot in the same way suppose that we are not while we doubt of the truth of these things; for there is a repugnance in conceiving that what thinks does not exist at the very time when it thinks. Accordingly, the knowledge, I think, therefore I am, is the first and most certain that occurs to one who philosophizes orderly."

Descartes was French wasn't he?

Too bad I don't read French

 

[oatmeal]

You got it all wrong....its "I thunk, therefore, I is"

Whoa! What just happened here?

 

[oatmeal]

The revelation from Oatmeal is not complete.

True there is much that people do not know about me.

Question

If I drop a frying pan in my kitchen and no one hears it but me , does anyone else exist?

oatmeal

 

[chrysostom]

I think you exist
therefore I exist
but
I am not sure about you

 

[Angel4Truth]

We dont exist, this is all a figment of your imagination.

Good job dreaming me up

 

[oatmeal]

I think you exist
therefore I exist
but
I am not sure about you

I know what you mean

If you got bumped in the head but no one witnessed it happen, would the bump be real?

 

[oatmeal]

We dont exist, this is all a figment of your imagination.

Good job dreaming me up

Thank you

Figment?

That's a funny word

 

[meshak]

We should be working for spiritual existence, if we are Jesus' followers.

The problem in the Christian community is they work so hard for the world.

Jesus' yoke is easy, if you let go of the world, it is so simple to live in this world.

 

[chrysostom]

I know what you mean

If you got bumped in the head but no one witnessed it happen, would the bump be real?

based on that
you do not exist

 

[Angel4Truth]

Thank you

Figment?

That's a funny word

fig·ment (fgmnt)
n.
Something invented, made up, or fabricated: just a figment of the imagination.
[Middle English, from Latin figmentum, from fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]